>>>>> "Ron" == Ron Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Ron> Terry Reedy wrote: >> I prefer the shorter names and using recode, for instance, for >> bytes to bytes. Ron> While I prefer constructors with an explicit encode argument, Ron> and use a recode() method for 'like to like' coding. 'Recode' is a great name for the conceptual process, but the methods are directional. Also, in internationalization work, "recode" strongly connotes "encodingA -> original -> encodingB", as in iconv. I do prefer constructors, as it's generally not a good idea to do encoding/decoding in-place for human-readable text, since the codecs are often lossy. Ron> Then the whole encode/decode confusion goes away. Unlikely. Errors like "A string".encode("base64").encode("base64") are all too easy to commit in practice. -- School of Systems and Information Engineering http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com